Another Child and Myotismon
[Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, terms, concepts, etc. I made up Shinji Shazaki.]
Prologue: Kari was freed from Myotismon's control. But Myotismon felt something while another child was lurking in the darkness, waiting to be discovered.
Myotismon was fuming. But he felt something.
He felt something stir inside his heart.
Somewhere, in a small neighborhood in the city…
A tall, skinny, brown-haired girl was lying on her roof. Her eyes closed, she was asleep. Her family let her go anywhere she cared. This night, she was on the roof of her house. But she had fallen asleep, staring at the full moon and stars.
Tai was holding his hand from the sharp whack he had gotten from some girl. She had already disappeared into the thick fog.
At the same time, the girl woke up with a start. She sat up shaking her head and then stood up. She looked off the edge of the two-story house and a breeze blew her brown hair out of her eyes. She pulled her head back and jumped off the roof. She hit the ground, and her legs bent the second it happened. To lessen the impact, she rolled for a few feet and stood up. She dusted herself off and put her hands into her pockets. She looked around for some reason and then walked into the city and the thick fog.
Myotismon was unbelievably angry that someone had released Kari from his control. As a result, he decided to look for a new victim and meal. He left his domain and entered the thick fog. He flew through the night sky and landed in the city. He sensed the presence of a person in the fog. They were walking away from him and he hurried to catch up with them. He finally decided to fly ahead of them. He landed a few feet ahead of them and waited.
A soft tapping sound came from a few feet ahead of him, signaling footsteps. He stood erect and still waited for the person. The person finally appeared in front of Myotismon. The person bumped into him, unlike Kari. This girl was nearly as tall as him and didn't seem lost. He didn't really wait. He grabbed the girl's shoulders immediately. He started to move her closer to him, for the near kill. As he shut his eyes, his hands lost grip and whoever he was holding. He quickly opened his eyes and looked around. The girl had dropped out of his grip and was crouching down. A small grin appeared on her face and Myotismon wondered how she got out of his grip. He was too busy thinking to notice what the girl was doing.
She tricked out both of his feet by twirling around on her hands, stopping looking away from him. Myotismon fell forwards as the girl rolled away and stood back up. When he was falling, the girl flipped backwards behind him. He fell practically on his face and lost his breath. In two seconds, the girl had Myotismon's arms behind his back, making him immobile. "Who are you?!" Myotismon demanded to know after he caught his breath. "Just so you know, my name is Shinji Shazaki." the girl replied, "You don't have to tell me anything. You're the guy that's giving all those young women sudden cases of anemia." "How is this human girl able to do this?" Myotismon thought, "I am an Ultimate digimon!" Shinji let Myotismon go and he stood up, rubbing his wrists where Shinji held him. "Don't try that again." she said putting her hands in her pockets, "But if you want to talk to me, or anything else, look for a girl lying on her roof, staring at the night sky." Shinji walked away into the fog.
Myotismon was left stunned by what happened. He slid up his sleeves and looked at his wrists. They had turned red from being held so hard. He was amazed and angry at how strong the measly human girl was. Myotismon growled under his breath and stalked away.
Shinji was walking through the fog with no place to go and decided to go back to her house and watch the stars some more. When she finally reached her house, it was completely pitch black except for the little light that the moon gave off. She climbed up to the roof and was about to pull herself up on one hand. A tan glove grabbed her wrist. She looked up and saw the angry face of Myotismon staring down at her. Myotismon pulled her hand away from the edge of the roof and up above his head. He held her high enough to look at her in the eye.
"I want to know how you were able to take me down so easily." Myotismon said, his voice deadly calm. "Why should I tell you?" Shinji asked calmly. If any of the Digi-destined were being held like Shinji was, they would have been unconscious quite a long time ago. "Why?" Myotismon asked, "I want to know because a simple human like you can't harm an Ultimate digimon like me!" He shouted this while throwing Shinji over his shoulder. Shinji twisted in the air and landed on her feet and knees gently on the roof. "You tried to attack me." Shinji said, "So I defended myself." Myotismon became enraged and ran at Shinji. Shinji took a step to the right and stuck out her foot. Myotismon tripped over Shinji's foot and fell off the side of the building.
Myotismon couldn't react quickly enough and fell onto the ground, hard. He raised himself on his elbows and coughed dirt and dust out of his throat. Shinji leapt off the side of the house and landed next to Myotismon. "I thought I told you not to try something like that again." Shinji said. Myotismon stood up and was even more enraged than before. "You are going to die by my hands by any means!" he shouted clenching his hands into fists, "CRIMSON LIGHTNING!" A red orb of lightning formed in his hands and stretched into a whip. He whipped it at Shinji. She backflipped at the wall behind her and the lightning hit nothing. Her feet deftly hit the wall and she lunged at Myotismon, tackling him to the ground.
Myotismon finally calmed down after being tackled and they both stood up. "Now will you please tell me why you're trying to kill me?" Shinji asked. "Just to say, I need to be in the fog." Myotismon said, "This bright light is blinding me." Shinji rolled her eyes and agreed. They walked into the dense fog with Shinji holding her hands in her pockets and Myotismon walking next to her. "I just want to know how a simple human girl can do this kind of thing to me." Myotismon explained. "I don't know." Shinji said, "This is hardly what I normally do. I don't often take digital monsters down, or anyone for that matter, by sticking my foot out to trip them. So why are you here… And what's your name for that matter?" "I am, as you said, a digital monster or digimon for short." Myotismon began, "I am called Lord Myotismon but you can call me Myotismon. Have you ever been lonely?" "Most of my life." Shinji said. Myotismon half expected her to say, "Joke!" but she never did. "Well, I am an evil digimon and I'm trying to get rid of the Digi-destined. But I can't seem to destroy them!" "Who are the Digi-destined?" Shinji asked. "They are children that carry digivices and Crests, and travel with digimon. Other digimon unlike myself. They are good digimon, and I am evil."
"How can you say that you are evil and they are good? All things have good inside them." Shinji said, "As I say sometimes, a light within the darkness. But you said something about digivices? Do they look like this?" Shinji pulled out a digivice and let Myotismon examine it. "This means that you are one of the Digi-destined!" Myotismon exclaimed, "But…" "But what?" Shinji asked taking the digivice. "But I don't want to destroy you." he said looking at Shinji. There was something about Shinji's eyes that made something in Myotismon stir. "Why's that?" Shinji asked. "I don't know." Myotismon said. He shook his head in confusion. He couldn't understand why he couldn't destroy the girl next to him. "How did you find that digivice?" he asked finally. "I found it one morning on my night table, near my alarm clock." Shinji explained, "But I don't know what it's for. Do you?"
"Do you have a Crest?" Myotismon asked hurriedly, "It's a kind of necklace that's made of polished brass and has a small symbol in the middle of it." "Oh yeah." Shinji said. She pulled off a Crest and handed it to Myotismon. "The Crest of Understanding…" Myotismon said examining the tiny Crest, "Where did you find this?" "Same place as the digivice." Shinji said. "Do you have-" Myotismon began. "Let me guess." Shinji said, "Do I have a digimon? And to answer your question, no I don't. I've never even seen a digimon before you. Except for dreams…" "That means she has no digimon. But to see them in dreams and to have only met one tonight? I don't understand." Myotismon thought. "How are you able to move like you did before?" he asked. "Taught myself how to take a fall, amongst other things." Shinji explained.
They continued to walk, surrounded by the thick fog. Shinji was wondering why Myotismon didn't try to kill her if she was one of the Digi-destined. And Myotismon was wondering the same thing. Myotismon became calmer and the fog disappeared, revealing the full moon and sparkling stars. Myotismon was, for some unfathomable reason, about to take Shinji's hand but, unfortunately, the sun began to rise. "I must go!" Myotismon said covering his eyes. He flew away, leaving Shinji standing alone and stunned. Shinji couldn't do anything, so she looked around, trying to find which way her house was. She started to just walk and went in the direction of her house, not knowing it yet.
Kari wanted to get acquainted with Gatomon so the other children left her alone. She and Gatomon talked for a long time, until the sun rose actually, and began to walk back to Kari's house. They finally reached the apartments and went inside for a long day's sleep.
But Izzy didn't have that much luck. Just about as he was going to hop into his bed, his computer started beeping. Izzy groaned and walked past his already sleeping digimon, Tentomon. He flipped open the laptop and the screen showed Genni. "I have more news for you Izzy!" he said, "I was wrong about that ally I spoke of! What I meant to say is, you have to find another Digi-destined child!" Izzy smacked his head hard against the desk. "Why didn't you get your facts right?!" Izzy asked in a muffled, yet peeved voice. "Sorry." Genni apologized, "But this child has already met her digimon! She just doesn't know it." Izzy groaned again. "I advise you contact the others tomorrow morning and tell them about this." Tentomon had woken up. "Right." Izzy said shutting the computer. Izzy clicked the lights off and plopped down onto his bed. He finally settled in for his long deserved slumber.
Shinji had personally gotten back to her house and climbed up to her roof. She walked over to the middle of the roof and picked up a small notebook/journal and pulled out a red pen to write in. Shinji sat down and wrote something on one page. She then fell asleep on accident. A gust ripped the page from the journal and was lost in the city. Shinji slept contently under the warming sun. With her wearing a silver t-shirt and a pair of jet-black jeans, it was almost impossible to tell if Shinji was a boy or a girl. Her long brown hair was tied back and was hidden when she lay down. Lying on the roof, Shinji would have looked like a boy to most. But if Myotismon was there, he would have said that she looked like a sleeping angel. It seemed to Shinji, that he liked her.
Izzy had called everyone and told them what Genni had said. Sora, Mimi, Biyomon, and Palmon had met up and were walking through the city, searching. The two digimon had been placed in a small toy baby basket and Mimi was pushing them around. But it was a small basket and the two digimon were arguing. "Knock it off you two!" Mimi said. The two digimon sat quietly. A small piece of paper blew against Sora's ankle and she picked it up. "What's this?" she asked. She read the paper and gasped. Mimi looked over her shoulder and read the paper. It read as follows:
"Well, last night was one of the stranger I've had. I ran into a 'digimon' as he put it, but to me, he looked like a man how dressed strangely. He was very strong, however. And quite handsome. But I was able to ask him a few questions. He told me that his name was, as others called him, Lord Myotismon. But he told me to call him Myotismon. I saw his fangs. I knew that he was a vampire from then on. He asked me questions in return to my own. I truly wanted to talk more with him, but true to being a vampire, the sun rose and he ran off.
Now I am left with questions let are left unanswered. But I feel like I have a connection with him somehow. I do not know if I will ever see him again, but I do know that he wishes to see me. You know, I think he likes me."
Now Sora and Mimi had some unanswered questions of their own. Sora found it best to call Tai and Mimi agreed. Sora ran home and called Tai. "WHAT?! WHAT DID YOU FIND?!" Tai screamed over the phone. "It was journal entry that talked about Myotismon!" Sora said, "Get everyone together at your place! OK?" Tai agreed and hung up the phone. He then called everyone else and they all got together at Tai's place. "Let me see what you found!" Tai said. Sora handed him the paper and he read it over and over. "Who could have met Myotismon and not be in the hospital by now?" he asked. He passed the paper around to everyone and they read it with as much understanding of it as Tai.
"This makes an even more compelling case to find the 9th child!" Izzy said. Everyone agreed but decided to wait. They still needed some sleep. After another short catnap, they set out in search of the 9th child. Once again, the sun set before they found anything. They were just about to leave for home when a roar stopped them in their tracks. They turned to see a Darktyrannomon and a Raremon standing behind them. "RUN!" Tai shouted. They all ran away. "Wait-a-minute!" Agumon shouted, "They're the ones that should be running!" Tentomon digivolved into Kabuterimon and Agumon into Greymon. The four digimon, two good, two evil, became locked in combat.
"STOP!"
A shout ensued from the top of a nearby two-story building and the two evil digimon stopped fighting and the two good digimon went back to their Rookie forms. "Raremon and Darktyrannomon!" the voice shouted, "Return from where you came! I command you!" As if listening to Myotismon himself, the two digimon disappeared into the shadows. The kids and digimon looked at the building top and saw a shadowy figure leap from the edge. They looked at the ground, waiting for the person to land on their head. Instead, they landed silently on their feet, bending to their knees and hands. They then stood up and faced the Digi-destined. They all gasped when they saw their eyes.
They were exact copies of Myotismon's eyes. "How did you-" Matt began. "How did I tell those digimon off?" the girl finished, "They listen to me and Myotismon." "How do you know Myotismon?" Tai asked. "I think I can explain." the girl said, "Come to the darkest place at midnight tonight. I'll see if I can get Myotismon to come." The girl turned on heel and started to walk away. "Wait!" Kari said, "Can you tell us your name?" The girl looked Kari straight in the eye. "My name is Shinji Shazaki." she said. Shinji turned away again and into the alley. Tai ran after her but she was gone in a flash, not going deeper in the alley. She had jumped onto an overhead clothing line and walked away, as if on a wide sidewalk.
Tai and the others looked at each other with disbelieving eyes. "It's ten right now." Izzy said, "We can take our time. I know where that place is." They agreed and followed Izzy.
Shinji had gone back to her roof and was lying on her back, looking at the stars and moon. A shadow appeared in the center of the moon and she sat up. The shadow took form and was Myotismon. Shinji stood up smiling and Myotismon landed in front of her. "I heard a battle going on. Is everything alright?" he asked. "Yeah." Shinji said, "I stopped it. But I accidentally said that you and I would meet the children in the process. Sorry." "It's alright. I suppose I could speak with them for one night without attacking them." Myotismon said, "When?" "Midnight tonight in the darkest place in the city." Shinji replied, "So we have- WHOA!" Myotismon wrapped his cape around Shinji and flew away. He quickly found the darkest place in the city and landed. He let Shinji go afterwards. Shinji checked her watch and saw that it was eleven fifty-nine.
"They should be here in one minute Myotismon." she told him. As if on cue, the sixteen children and digimon walked towards them from the shadows. They stopped and all of them glared at each other except for Shinji. "Didn't you all agree not to be at each other's throat for one night?" she asked. All the kids turned about with their arms crossed angrily and Myotismon glared at their backs. Mimi glanced over her shoulder at Myotismon. The pale light from the moon glanced off his fangs. Mimi fainted with a thud against the ground. Sora knelt down to see if Mimi was OK. "Yeah. I expected that would happen." Shinji said, a small smile appearing on her face.
"Now all of you said that you would not attack each other for one night. So keep your word!" Shinji continued. Tai sighed a groan and they all turned around again. Myotismon snarled under his breath and stopped glaring. "That's better." Shinji said. "Just wondering, how did you meet Myotismon and not get bitten?" Tai asked, turning his glare to Shinji. "I stopped him." Shinji said. Everyone looked at her like she was completely insane. "I did!" Shinji insisted. "She did." Myotismon assured everyone. "OK." Tai said, not letting his glare off Shinji, "But how did you meet him in the first place?" "Bumped into him in the fog a few nights ago." she said. Tai didn't trust Shinji. He couldn't see how she could possibly stop Myotismon from attacking her.
Agumon thought exactly the same way Tai did but as before, he could put his words to action. "Pepper Breath!" he shouted. But his aim was off, for once. The fireball shot at Shinji. "Help!" she shouted. Myotismon grabbed his cape and flung it over Shinji. The cape was powerful enough to block Birdramon's Meteor Wing so Agumon's Pepper Breath was easily blocked. "What the- Myotismon saved Shinji!" Agumon said. Tai and Agumon were both stunned, they thought that Myotismon cared only about himself. Myotismon pulled his cape back. "Thanks Myotismon." Shinji said. Myotismon was amazed at himself. He had just saved a human girl from probable death. But he was an evil digimon.
Shinji was grateful that Myotismon saved her. Tai was still glaring holes in Shinji. Agumon was glaring right along with him. Matt, Sora, TK, Kari, Mimi, Joe, and Izzy were surprised. Suddenly, Izzy got an idea. "Hey Shinji!" he shouted, "Do you have a digivice or a Crest?" "Both!" Shinji said. She pulled off her Crest and her digivice off one of her belt loops. Izzy thoroughly examined the two items and handed them back to Shinji. "But if you have a Crest and digivice, that means…" he said. "SHE'S THE 9TH DIGI-DESTINED!" everyone shouted. Izzy was pondering something. "Genni said that the 9th child had already met their digimon… And if Shinji's the 9th Digi-destined…" Izzy said. He looked between Myotismon and Shinji and back and forth for a few minutes. He finally realized something and fell backwards, unconscious.
Now everyone looked at the two kids that had fainted. Kari did what Izzy did and realized what he did. "Oh wow! Myotismon is the 9th digimon!" she shouted pointing at the former evil digimon. Everyone gasped and Joe also fell back fainting. "Will you guys stop that?!" Shinji shouted, getting annoyed with everyone fainting. Mimi finally woke up. "Sorry." she apologized, "I didn't mean to faint." "If you promise not to faint, I can tell you something else." Sora said, "Shinji is the 9th child and Myotismon is the 9th digimon." Mimi's eyes rolled back and she fainted once more. "You guys faint too much." Shinji said shaking her head and developing a sweatdrop.
Mimi, Joe, and Izzy woke up about an hour later finally able to not faint when everyone mentioned that Myotismon was the 9th digimon. Mimi and Joe just got a little weak-kneed whenever this was mentioned. "So what are we supposed to do now, since Myotismon isn't evil anymore?" Tai said, hardly believing his own words. To answer Tai's question, Genni sent them another e-mail. "I see that you found the 9th child already." he said, "Oh and their digimon as well, hello Myotismon." "Genni." Myotismon replied nodding his head. "But I'm afraid I have some bad news for you." he continued, "You have to return to the Digiworld. And soon."
Epilogue: Genni gave the children instructions and they returned to the Digiworld. But there was some distrust between the children…
Next: A Distrust Between Digi-destined